Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard delivers his annual State of the City address at The Alexander hotel in the CityWay development at Delaware and South streets Downtown on March 8, 2013.

Written by

The City-County Council tonight signed off on a pact that's expected to provide more than $11.6 million to public safety agencies and introduced other budget-related measures.

One new proposal would approve the spending of federal grant money to hire 30 firefighter recruits. Another would kick off a study on the possible elimination of Marion County's homestead property tax credit.

With those moves, the council pushed ahead on several unresolved issues surrounding the nearly $1.1 billion city/county budget. ...